Abominable

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“Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.”
— The Bible, Book of Proverbs 12:22, King James Version.
“The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, in "Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv", in A Universal History of Iniquity (1935); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998); Cf. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940).
“One of the s of Uqbar had stated that mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of man.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, in (1940).
“Compare not thyself with others, but with Me. If thou dost not find Me in those with whom thou comparest thyself, thou comparest thyself to one who is abominable.”
— Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1669) § 555.
“The wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit... When riches are gained, follow desire, for riches will not profit if one is sluggish.”
— Ptahhotep, The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE), Maxim no. 11.
“Coveting and spying are abominations to Ninurta.”
— Sumerian proverb, Collection III at , .

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